A Space for the Taking Workshop

(90 minutes)

“Become a kindergartener again! In the Kindergarten of A Space for the Taking, you can give space to your emotions, your momentary desires and temper, you can connect or be lonely, you can play, have a tantrum, or just relax. Here, everyone can be themselves, get to know each other, discover, and marvel at things with a child’s eye that we don’t even notice today. Here, our differences make you curious, we invite you to explore without words. People with different mentalities, brain structures, nervous systems, and physical structures – come and play! We believe that accepting and embracing our differences is liberating for the entire community. We have one important rule: we respect each other and ourselves.”

We would like to share the revelatory, liberating coexistence, wordless communication that we experienced with the inclusive team of the performance A Space for the Taking. This work process was initiated by an Erasmus+ project. When, at the end of the Budapest work phase, we went to the Pontoon ship to party with the similarly mixed Spanish team. It was beautiful to see how our dancers with different, atypical physical abilities freely threw themselves into the dance. The party audience looked at them with astonished - but at the same time appreciative - glances, and welcomed them with complete naturalness.

It was euphoric to dance in such a diverse environment. Why do we almost never experience this in Hungary?

Playfellows, kindergarten teachers and creators: Balázs Dudás, Julcsi Farkas, Laura Holly, Anna Horváth, Flóra Kovács-Papp, Gergely Marosi, Milla Noa Moskony, Réka Szabó, Zsófia Szász, Johanna Szőke, Péter Valcz